Multiverse is hiring a
Principal Engineer, Remote - United Kingdom

Summary

The job is for a Principal Engineer at Multiverse, a company that provides apprenticeships to close skill gaps in the workforce. The role involves collaborating with other Engineering leaders, inspiring the team, designing and building for scale, researching new technologies, and mentoring other engineers. The candidate should be comfortable working with multiple technologies and have experience in infrastructure, DevOps, information security, and platform engineering.

Requirements

• Comfortable working with multiple technologies. We mainly use Elixir running on AWS ECS for our web development, but as we develop our micro-services architecture we increasingly have more pieces of Javascript, Rust, Python, Terraform, Bash
• Deep interest in engineering best practices (Clean code, DDD, TDD etc.)
• Think about products and opportunities at a system level, aim to deliver impact at scale

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other Engineering leaders and teams to help define medium to long term technology strategy taking into account both technical and business needs
• Work across multiple product teams in a domain providing guidance and technical leadership to help them be effective
• Inspire as a role model for Engineering, advocating best practices and providing mentorship and support to other engineers
• Mentor other engineers to help raise the bar for the Engineering team
• Represent Engineering in cross functional meetings with the rest of the Business
• Help teams build repeatable patterns to ship well tested code with security, observability and quality built in
• Investigate new technologies and tools, working on proof of concepts and reference implementations to maximise the teams' impact
• Help to grow the Engineering community at Multiverse being involved in both defining our hiring strategy and the hiring process itself

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure, DevOps, information security, and platform engineering, as well as splitting monoliths in distributed systems (with a mixture of APIs and events) will be a plus
• Great at collaborating, facilitating decision making, and driving consensus; you will be providing engineering leadership and direction and bringing engineers along with you

Benefits

• Time off. - 27 days holiday, plus 7 additional days off: 1 life event day, 2 volunteer days and 4 company-wide wellbeing days
• Health & Wellness. - private medical Insurance with Bupa, a medical cashback scheme, life insurance, gym membership & wellness resources through Gympass and access to Spill - all in one mental health support
• Hybrid & remote work offering. - with weekly or monthly visits to the London office and the opportunity to work abroad 45 days a year
• Team fun. - weekly socials, company wide events and office snacks!